A man accused of defrauding a Pittsburgh-area man out of more than $100,000 is under arrest.
Investigators say Zhudi Chen posed as a federal agent who was investigating fraud at PNC Bank. He was arrested with the help of the FBI in Springdale Township. According to the criminal complaint, the 40-year-old from New York was part of a group that took $130,200 from a local victim.
The 76-year-old man told police he received an alert that someone had fraudulently accessed his account. He called the number and spoke with a representative who notified him that in order to catch the suspect, he would need to liquidate his brokerage account and transfer the money into his PNC Bank account…